Inadvertantly. Yeah, right. That’s the byword of the right. Shit happens. They’re never responsible.

Excuse me while I upchuck.

BushCo would nominate an Orthodox Jew or Muslim to head the Whitehouse BBQ if he could!

Get in there and marinate them pork ribs real good…

Keroack is a crackpot. By putting him in charge of family planning, Bush effectively insured that the health and the life of millions of poor women will be endangered.

Bush has clearly not been chastened by the results of the mid-term elections. His first moves? Re-nominate Bolton, re-nominate four ultra-right wingers for judgeship (one of them found “not qualified” by the ABA), and now nominating a religious crackpot to head family planning.

I predict that his stubborness and his defiance will backfire big time for the GOP.

“[H]e’ll perform his duties…within the law” is interesting new qualifying territory for Republican appointies (sp). We’ll just need to watch and see if this unsupported premenition will prove to be true or untrue?

All the po folks can just go back to the dark, dangerous alley, like they did in the 50’s. If they don’t come back out, then it must be God’s will.

Care for another round of more Jesus juice? Drink up!

You mean Realist… :)

Pessimist…

Nah… IF he could get it up, it would just be over in 2 minutes and he’d feel equally inadequate as a man who hates women but believes his god hates gays – and guilty for two weeks afterward for being all sexual – making him even more cranky… :D

If this is the case, no way would he say he failed recertification but that he merely “forgot” or let lapse his certification.

-Thorstein Veblen

Not disagreement with the importance of board certification for practicing physicians, but that was not my point above. It was to clarify that lack of board certification does not imply one is no longer a licensed physician. As ‘ForTruth’ says, many physicians in administrative positions let their certification lapse–unless they are over age 50, in which case, they don’t need to be recertified since it does not expire for them.

Your sampling of ‘every doctor we know’ does not represent a true sample of all physicians out there. There are many, many non-board certified physicians who provide quality care.

It would probably do him some good….

The guy is a lunatic whether he is certified or not. He wishes he could have lots of sex…

Maintaining a certification or a license when no longer practicing is a pain in the ass. The credentials’ primary function is to protect the patient. Whan a doctor or clinician is in an administrative capacity, they don’t necessarily need the credential. However, the required continuing education is the thing that Eric Keroack will not have. But now that he is in the Bush admin, continuing education is banned.

-patrick

My father is a 65 year old G.P. (family doc) and everyone in his practice is board certified and every doctor we know is board certified. With the pace of changes in medicine it really is a necessity and not an option. That we might nominate a physician that isn’t board certified to one of the top gov’t health appointments in the land is unacceptable.

Yep, it’s the best we can do. It’s nonsensical the way these people approach life.